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What happened to man pages?

• bagnaram 6y ago
  Folks started distributing applications as binaries instead of OS packages and distributed documentation fell by the way-side. Nowadays most apps self-document. I'm looking at you golang!
• input_sh 6y ago
  I always found them to be too detailed. It's easier for me to just write down most commonly used syntaxes of commands, or use something like https://tldr.sh/ https://tldr.sh/.
  • jmnicolas 6y ago
    Don't get me started on "man find". I usually end up googling it (I don't use the terminal frequently). Why can't I type "find toto.txt" and it looks for the file everywhere? If I need a more complex search I'm fine providing more arguments but give me something by default so that I don't spend 10 minutes trying to find how to use find ;) Yes I could make an alias, but it won't be available everywhere.
    • jdowner 6y ago
      You might find, https://github.com/sharkdp/fd https://github.com/sharkdp/fd to your liking. It is simple, intuitive, and very fast.
    • approxim8ion 6y ago
      locate (mlocate) does that, but it's not find's job to do it. I understand why the naming might be unfortunate though.